🐾 Planet Zoo - Update 1.5 coming 30 March 🐾

nutrit

nutrit
This is just a mind blowing Update 🤩
Especially Gharial deep diving and new water features are making my heart beat faster.

This is just amazing how things we speak here on the forum make their way into the game.
I really appreciate that Chante and sure I am not the only one here.

The Asian theme shown nearly on every screenshot clearly suggests an Asian oriented DLC which is extremely exciting for me 😍

But I wouldn’t be so sure if it’s going to be limited to SE Asia.
 

PnGLINNyo

PnGLINNyo
Sun Bear for sure
nutrit said:
This is just a mind blowing Update 🤩
Especially Gharial deep diving and new water features are making my heart beat faster.

This is just amazing how things we speak here on the forum make their way into the game.
I really appreciate that Chante and sure I am not the only one here.

The Asian theme shown nearly on every screenshot clearly suggests an Asian oriented DLC which is extremely exciting for me 😍

But I wouldn’t be so sure if it’s going to be limited to SE Asia.
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There'll be sun bears for sure, should this pack be not confined to SE Asia, I'm thinking
Przewalski's Horse, Lar Gibbon, and Golden Takin. But if it's SE Asian pack, I'd wish for Lar gibbons, binturongs and clouded leopards!!

At any case I'm thrilled to see Frontiers are so much picking up their pace, sooo fast!!! Thank you!!
 

nutrit

nutrit
PnGLINNyo said:
Sun Bear for sure

There'll be sun bears for sure, should this pack be not confined to SE Asia, I'm thinking
Przewalski's Horse, Lar Gibbon, and Golden Takin. But if it's SE Asian pack, I'd wish for Lar gibbons, binturongs and clouded leopards!!

At any case I'm thrilled to see Frontiers are so much picking up their pace, sooo fast!!! Thank you!!
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I would bet my money on:
Any Asian leopard
Any Gibbon
Przewalski horse
Sun bear
 

Cocolori

Cocolori
FunGaming said:
Why are things locked again for sandbox ? Some people specially a lot of content creators only use sandbox so why the force to play modes just to unlock statues, why not unlock them for just the sandbox mode and make them an unlock requirement just for the other modes.
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I get why some might feel like this but there has also been plenty of people pushing for exclusive rewards based on other modes to make them feel more rewarded. I can also understand that the developers spent a lot of time and effort on the career scenarios and they might want to encourage people to explore that mode who would normally just play sandbox. It's not a massive investment of time especially on easy settings and personally I'm hoping there may be some locked behind the timed scenarios to motivate me to get to grips with them.

I mean I would say this because I have completed all the career ones except the timed ones so I'm definitely bias. However I do think people dismissed career too easily because the first few were tutorials (and a bit buggy at the start).

Note on the update. Just a thanks as someone who is mainly a franchise mode player for the stuff in here clearly aimed at that section of the community. The multi entrance, multi select, saving as sandbox etc. This isn't to put down the sandbox players and hopefully future updates will address some of the additional features you want but it's nice to see frontier trying to please everyone.
 

arafan

A
To be honest, I think this is the least exciting free update so far. There are some nice features, but I don't think they will change my life. Still, thank you for still providing us with free updates! :)
 

NL_Mutso

NL_Mutso
FunGaming said:
Great update, still missing the barriers from planco though it would have been perfect to fit in this update, also still miss the option to turn the requirement for water temperature regulator off in sandbox mode and a no litter option also still much requested.
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There's a suggestion part on this forum, you don't have to repeat your suggestions in every update/feature announcement.
Could be a long thread if people start commenting on stuff not included in an update :D

Love the update, loads of QoL stuff. Especially the water clarity is a good addition, no more tricks to get a good view.
and really great to add a reward for completing scenarios. Don't play them often and still need to complete 1 or 2 (or at least gold) but a nice push to fully complete them.


Cocolori said:
I get why some might feel like this but there has also been plenty of people pushing for exclusive rewards based on other modes to make them feel more rewarded. I can also understand that the developers spent a lot of time and effort on the career scenarios and they might want to encourage people to explore that mode who would normally just play sandbox. It's not a massive investment of time especially on easy settings and personally I'm hoping there may be some locked behind the timed scenarios to motivate me to get to grips with them.
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It happens with more games like that, some even reward people that have certain steam-achievements. It's not like they are locking a feature behind this, the rewards are scenery items. Most sandbox players will just play the scenarios for a few hours to get the statues they want.
 

HeatherG

Volunteer Moderator
HeatherG
❤️ Thanks Frontier for the INcredible amount of work that went into this update!
Can't wait to test out the new features!! :)
 

markun

markun
Cocolori said:
I get why some might feel like this but there has also been plenty of people pushing for exclusive rewards based on other modes to make them feel more rewarded.
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It's a choice to play in that mode and no one makes them. Like I said, they aren't do anything of inherent value or worth and I don't see why they deserve special treatment in getting content for a game where we all paid the same amount.
 

Fini

Fini
What a fantastic Update! I love it ❤️
That's so nice, because you just listen to your community!

Chante Goodman said:
Staff Traversable Area Map
We've added a new habitat Heat Map Mode that shows the traversable area of Staff members within a habitat. You will be able to see where Staff members can reach, just like the animal traversable area Heat Map, and objects that the Keeper needs to reach such as feeding trays and drinking stations will also be highlighted.
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THIS! Woohooo \o/

Hey Chante, i have a question: When we save our Franchise Zoo in Sandbox, are the animals also transmitted? So that we e.g. have our white tigers in the sandbox too?
Thank you and have a nice day :)
 

Danny_zoo

Danny_zoo
I'm so excited about billboards that I'm unable to feel disappointment:oops: at this time:giggle: Thank you frontier devs for all the hard work and contributions to this game.

I have to admit that the billboards feature saved this update for me, even thought the custom audio sounds fantastic as well, and the flexi color water would definitely open up the possibilities for certain areas and water assets to look even more realistic. Mossy water, murky water and even African river streams are all now possible, this along deserves a cake. I'm very happy for franchise and challenge mode players that they have received so many of the features they wanted, did not even know that half of this things were community requests.

It goes to show you how amazing this game is, that it can mean so many different things to so many, and that multiple player communities can exist in the same platform. I'm sure that when the billboard feature was announced many in these communities might have thought, what is the big deal? Some might have just looked at it as advertisement or another level of management. For many of the players that focus on creativity in sandbox it will forever change this game. I do agree with other players that game props as rewards for playing these modes, is not the way to go. It will not make me want to play those modes any more or less, but it will keep me from accessing precious content in a game that is all about endless possibilities, creativity and variety, so not a fan of that, and I hope it does not become a trend.

Aside from that I did feel my blood pressure go down when no brachiation was announced, was really hoping for this, and besides flying it is the next great frontier in animal animation for Frontier:unsure: I do now question that South East Asia will be the next dlc:confused: because it would make no sense without gibbons, and gibbons would make no sense without brachiation. A general Asia theme would make absolutely no sense either, since we already have two construction themes that allow us to recreate those worlds in detail, as well as its biggest animal starts, Giant Pandas, Snow Leopards, Bengal Tigers, Siberian Tigers, Red Pandas, Japanese Macaques and the list goes on.

For all it is worth Frontier might have something even bigger and better up their sleeves, and speaking about bigger and better, that was my biggest take away from this update, and I'm quite surprise no one is talking about it. There are zero scenery/foliage items in this free update, a major part of each update before this one. Now Chante mentioned not too long ago that the team was hoping this to be Frontier's biggest year yet, so not sure that less game assets, especially foliage (the heart and soul of any zoo) means that. This brings me to the conclusion that whatever it is they will be realizing in a dlc, took considerable resources to deliver, and that was their primary focus. I choose to believe this and wait with anticipation.
 

LN

LN
markun said:
It's a choice to play in that mode and no one makes them. Like I said, they aren't do anything of inherent value or worth and I don't see why they deserve special treatment in getting content for a game where we all paid the same amount.
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Just be glad you don't have to pay extra for that content, as there are plenty of games that completely lock you out for certain content, untill you pay extra.
 

markun

markun
Danny_zoo said:
This brings me to the conclusion that whatever it is they will be realizing in a dlc, took considerable resources to deliver, and that was their primary focus. I choose to believe this and wait with anticipation.
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That is my hope. The fact that they revealed the update with quite some time to go before the release could possibly suggest that they have a lot to tease/reveal/lead up to. But who knows...
 

Tobs

Tobs
markun said:
It's a choice to play in that mode and no one makes them. Like I said, they aren't do anything of inherent value or worth and I don't see why they deserve special treatment in getting content for a game where we all paid the same amount.
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They don't have any special treatment. Everyone has the same opportunities.

It's a choice. It's a reward.

If you want the statues/sculptures, play career & challenge mode.
 

Danny_zoo

Danny_zoo
Cocolori said:
I get why some might feel like this but there has also been plenty of people pushing for exclusive rewards based on other modes to make them feel more rewarded. I can also understand that the developers spent a lot of time and effort on the career scenarios and they might want to encourage people to explore that mode who would normally just play sandbox. It's not a massive investment of time especially on easy settings and personally I'm hoping there may be some locked behind the timed scenarios to motivate me to get to grips with them.

I mean I would say this because I have completed all the career ones except the timed ones so I'm definitely bias. However I do think people dismissed career too easily because the first few were tutorials (and a bit buggy at the start).

Note on the update. Just a thanks as someone who is mainly a franchise mode player for the stuff in here clearly aimed at that section of the community. The multi entrance, multi select, saving as sandbox etc. This isn't to put down the sandbox players and hopefully future updates will address some of the additional features you want but it's nice to see frontier trying to please everyone.
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The thing is that it will not encourage anyone that is interested in only playing sandbox with unlimited creativity in a completely different way of playing. All it accomplishes is for strictly sandbox players to lose out on much needed game props. I have wanted more statues and props in this game since day one, would happily pay for them separately if I had to, what I will not do is play a game mode that offers absolutely no inspiration or benefits for me, and all it will do is take away from my time to play in sandbox.

Not sure if you are the same player, so please do excuse me if I'm mistaken, but some time back you might have responded to me in a separate thread that not every player cared about realism or design accuracy in this game. I tried understanding your point as it was a valid one for you. Now let us switch the shoe around, how would you feel if there were several unlockable animals in the game, but the only way to get them released was to built true life like realistic zoological exhibits that included a conservation message and theme to have access to them? Plus a minimum requirement of 50 hours per exhibit. Would that make sense to you? Maybe it does, maybe it does not, but that is how some of us feel.
 
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